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Roald Dahl, the son of Harald Dahl, shipbroker, and his second wife, Sofie Magdalene, was born at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, Llandaff onHis parents were prosperous Norwegians. His biographer, Philip Howard, has argued: "When Dahl was only three another beloved, older sister and his father died within two months of one another. This was the first in a series of catastrophes and mortal disasters that dogged his life, and, he claimed, gave his work a black savagery. His mother, a devoted matriarch, ran the family. In the summers she took them to Norway, where her family fostered Dahl's interest in insects and birds, Nordic trolls, and witches."
Roald Dahl was educated at Llandaff Cathedral School and Repton School. Fellow students have since commented on his "bullying humour and competitive spirit, and his hatred of authority". He clashed with Geoffrey Fisher, the headmaster of Repton. Dahl later recalled that the "hypocrisy of his headmaster's brutal beatings followed by pious sermons in Repton chapel cured him of any inclination towards Christianity."
Roald Dahl decided against going to university and after taking part in the Public Schools Exploring Society's expedition to Newfoundland he joined Royal Dutch Shell
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